US Attorney General Bill Barr on Monday announced the DOJ is declaring war on dangerous “sanctuary city” policies.
Barr made the announcement at the National Sheriff’s Association Tech Conference.
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Barr said the DOJ would be filing multiple lawsuits against state and local governments for enacting “sanctuary city” policies.
“The department is filing a complaint against the state of New Jersey seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against its laws that forbid state and local law enforcement from sharing vital information about criminal aliens with [the DHS],” Barr said.
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A separate lawsuit would be targeting King County, Washington over a dangerous policy “that forbids DHS from deporting aliens from the United States using King County International Airport,” Barr said.
“Further, we are reviewing the practices, policies, and laws of other jurisdictions across the country. This includes assessing whether jurisdictions are complying with our criminal laws, in particular the criminal statute that prohibits the harboring or shielding of aliens in the United States,” Barr added.
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Barr also said the DOJ is currently conducting reviews of DA’s who have enacted policies that charge “foreign nationals with lesser offenses for the express purpose of avoiding the federal immigration consequences of those nationals’ criminal conduct.”
“The Founding Fathers carefully divided responsibility and power between the federal government and the state governments,” Barr said citing the Constitution.
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